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THE SKYSCRAPER January 25, 1935 W.A.A* Launches Tournament For Inter-Club Basketball An innovation in Mundelein sports is the inauguration of an inter-club basket ball tourney sponsored by the physical education majors and designed to pro mote interest in athletics, and to provide opportunities for more players to enter competetive games. Since the W.A.A. is not entering a team, the outstanding athletes of the College are fairly evenly divided among the other clubs, thus insuring equal competition. Students belonging to more than one club are asked to play with the team that needs them most. Practice periods have already been arranged for some groups, and the fol lowing line-ups have been announced. Mae Sexton, Catherine Lindley, Lu cille Small, Ruth Mary Gorman, and Frances Crowley will play for the Ter rapins. Edith Dorn and Marion Sifferman have entered the lists for the Glee club, and Jane Malloy, Sue Adams, Honorc O'Brien, and Mary Domes have come out for the Alpha Omicron team. The Press club will be represented by Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, Roberta Christie, Jean MeKeever, and Gertrude Rafferty, and the Piano club has an nounced that it will play under the title of the Bach Basketeers. The Commerce club team includes Rita Eiden, Yvonne Crowley, Leona Murphy, Mary Joyce Vail, Betty Zoes, Marion Weber, Margaret Vendley, and Loretta Sturm, and an independent team, the Pems, has been organized to accom modate students who are not affiliated with any clubs. It includes Felicia Pon tecarvo, Dorothy Rustrum, Dorris Brown, Mary Touhy, and Mildred Parker. Father Qoodwin Lauds Federal Reserve Banks Since 1933 the banking situation in our country has been in a precarious sit uation, confidence being displaced by an tagonism. These were the opening words of the Reverend Eneas B. Goodwin, J.D., in his lecture on Jan. 16. But, continued Father, this pessim istic attitude can easily be dispelled when we consider the responsibility and safety of Federal Reserve banks. Father then explained the function of the Federal Reserve Banking System, which is to secure greater elasticity of currency in stringent periods, and later showed how the banks are operated. In. conclusion, he stressed the need for such an institution and the great influence it played during the War, acting as a fiscal agent for the government itself. Commerce and Economics Teachers Attend Meetings Teachers of commerce at Mundelein spent three of their Christmas holidays attending the thirty-seventh annual con vention of the National Commercial Teachers' Federation, at the Stevens Hotel. Principles and practices in busi ness education, curriculum building, and the personal equation in business educa tion were the main topics of the con ferences. Prominent among the speakers was Miss Mary A. Kennedy, personnel di rector of Harris Trust and Savings bank, who has shown special interest in Mun delein College graduates, and has been responsible for the placement of several; of them. Brookings Economist Talks Of particular interest at the convention' of the American Economics Association was the paper by Charles O. Hardy of Brookings Institution. Speaking on An Appraisal of the American Commercial Banking System, Mr. Hardy attributed the recent crisis in the economic situation of the country to three important factors: the absence of legislation regulating the; organization of banks, the superfluous; banks existing in the various sections of: the United States, and a lack of scientific, economic knowledge on the part of those entrusted with the financial welfare ot people. Sociologists Lecture In Dr. Rooney's Class To conclude the semester's work, Dr. Miriam Rooney procured two guest speakers last week for her class in adolescent psychology. On Monday, Dr. Mary McCormick of Loyola university lectured on The Adolescent Conflict. She classified the problems under four headings: physical, intellectual, moral, and mental. The mental problems which cause the most difficulty, are not mental defects nor diseases but the problems caused by the effort of the adolescent to adjust him self to himself and to the world outside. The essential point, continued Dr. McCormick, is to recognize that these adolescent conflicts do exist, that they are perfectly natural and normal, but at the same time, that they cannot be ig nored. The class was interested, likewise, on Wednesday in hearing about the practical application of a knowledge of adolescent problems, as illustrated by the personal experiences of Professor Mary O'Connell of Loyola, who has done social service work in Boston, Hartford, and Chicago, for the past fifteen years. Professor O'Connell did not, she said, expect all the students to be social service workers, but declared that it would be their duty as Catholic college graduates to give of their abundance of train ing and culture to those less fortunate than themselves. Lecturer Describes Education in Russia That the present system of Russian education is calculated to destroy not only the political and religious identity of the Russian citizen, but his individual human personality as well was the point emphasized by the Reverend Joseph Roubik, S.J., professor of history at Loyola university, in a talk on New and Old Russia, before the College assembly on Jan. 9. Stressing the extreme standardizing of education by the Soviet republic, Fathei Roubik said, The Russian children are grouped in age divisions from five to ten years, from ten to fourteen, from fourteen to eighteen, and from eighteen to twenty-two years. The only thing taught to the youngest group is how to make a budget. The second group is taught how to make a budget for a community. The third learns how to budget the resources of a province, and the fourth group to budget the resources of the nation. Such isol ated and unvarying education tends to substitute for man's individualism a new, mechanical nature. Writes Long-Short Story Have you read the adventures of Timmy O'Flannagan, the genial, large- hearted Irish American who journeyed all the way across the Atlantic to see the wedding of his colleen Peg and then but that would be telling. Read Mao- Frances Petrie's story in the Christmas issue of The Waif's Messenger, the first long-short story of the College scribes to merit publication. Father Reilly, Seniors, Discuss Art of Living The art of living is the ability to ad just ones self to circumstances to be 'smart' in knowing what life is and the means of pursuing it happily, declared the Reverend Thomas Reilly, S.J., head of the sociology department of Marquette university, in a discussion-lecture to the seniors on Jan. 17. Life, Father continued, is a jour ney from God to God, and, as such, hap piness plays a large part in it. Happiness is our birthright, and it should be, natur ally, the objective in our lives. Father Reilly listed the obstacles to happiness as follows, ignorance about happiness, lack of control of the things which oppose happiness, and lack of suf ficient effort to be happy. In conclusion, Father Reilly declared that the whole course at Mundelein College is a course in the art of living. Lucy Crowley, senior president, acted as chairman. Faculty Members Attend Professional Conventions (Continued from page 1, col. 2) The Catholic Library association held its second national convention at the Graduate school of De Paul university, and was opened by the Reverend Peter J. Etzig, C. Ss. R., president. Papers on the CLA in Retrospect and in Prospect were given by Mr. Paul R. Byrne, librarian of the University of Notre Dame, and by Father Etzig. The Reverend William T. Kane, S.J., of Loyola university, spoke on the sub ject, Toward More Effective Procedure. One of the interesting discussions was that on the Catholic Periodical Index. Foreign Press is Discussed The place of the press in contempo rary political and social life in America and in foreign countries was a major consideration at the convention of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, held at the Medinah club. Ernest K. Lindley, Washington cor respondent for the New York Herald, discussed the Press and the New Deal, noting especially the mutually friendly attitude of the President and the Press. Press control in Germany under the Hitler regime and in Italy under II Duce were described by Reginald Coggeshall of Columbia university, and Carroll Binder of the Chicago Daily News dis cussed conditions in China and Japan. Of special interest were the two points of view on the Russian press, that of Professor Vernon McKenzie of the University of Washington, a former Russian correspondent, and that of Vla dimir Romm, an enthusiastic supporter of the Soviet State and American cor respondent to a Russian paper. SKYSCRAPINGS Science Club Studies Thyroid Secretions An open-forum discussion was held at the Jan. 14 meeting of the Science club, following an address by Irene Lavin on The Thyroid Gland and its Secretion. In the course of the discussion the lo cation, structure, and nature of the se cretions were considered as well as the gland functions and the conditions result ing from its over-and under-activity. American History Qroup Receives Map Collection A set of nine maps, colorfully mounted and linen-backed, dealing with American history, have been presented to the his tory department at Mundelin through the courtesy of the father of Lilian Krez, a member of the freshman class. Beginning with a delineation of the world, these maps illustrate the period from the discovery of America to its first settlement and include from terri tory to state, the war periods, and the expansion of the United States in the Atlantic and Pacific after the Spanish- American war. The maps also show the location of the various Indian tribes, their homes, and the fauna and flora of each section, to gether with the railroads, canals, and mines of the United States. Represents College in N. Y. With delegates from New York, Balti more, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, South Bend, Omaha, and Chicago, Laetitia Kalisz, representing Mundelein, attended the convention of the Polish Students association in Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 28 and 29. Business of the convention was con cerned primarily with scholarship funds and scholarships to Poland, together with studies of the cultural relations of the clubs in various districts. Sodality Academies Review Year; Make Plans for New Activities By Isabf.i-i.e Graham The general feature of the January meeting of the Sodality academies was a report of Sodality activities of 1934 by Virginia Woods, prefect. The newly formed Catholic Evidence academy, following the suggestions of Maizie Ward Sheed and Father Magner, both of whom had previously addressed the organization, devoted the meeting entirely to a discussion of questions which are most commonly asked con cerning the Church. Mary Agnes Tynan led the discussion. Mary Ann Walsh, president, gave a report on the organization's Christmas work, at the meeting of the Social Ser vice academy. Letters of appreciation from the various beneficiaries were read, while Mary Elizabeth Ronan read a communication regarding Catholic So cial Action. It was decided at the meet ings that the academy would sponsor a series of ten lectures on the Catholic family, to be delivered to the student body. At the meeting of the Catholic Litera ture group, plans were made to have a Catholic book corner in the library for Catholic Press month. Several short re views of the works of prominent Cath olic authors were given by Elenor Loarie, and a report on the sale of monthly pam phlets was given by the Sodality treas urer, Mary Catherine Rose. At the meeting of the Braille unit, Kathryn Weniger, president, and Mary O'Brien were presented with certificates from the National Braille Headquarters in Washington, D.C. These entitle them to assist in the transcription of books and papers for the blind. The Eucharistic-Our Lady's academy devoted its meeting to a discussion of plans for retreat. It was decided that a bulletin board would be kept in the base ment, with an outline of the daily con ferences. The academy recommended, however, that each student keep her own individual retreat notebook. It was an nounced that the members would take turns in assisting in the sacristy during retreat. The Liturgical academy was addressed at its meeting by the head of the music department, who related the history of the Gregorian chant; after this, phono graph records of the Mass, sung in the chant by the Benedictine monks of the Benedictine monastery in Solesmes, France, were heard. The International Relations group de- voted its meeting to reports on Persia. Annamae Shinnick spoke on the Geog raphy and People of Persia, and Loretta Brady told of the oriental potentate,; Haroun al Raschid. Florence O'Callahan explained the lit erary importance of the Arabian Nights, and Margaret Werlein read selections from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. At this time Father Goodwin announced a convention of International Relations clubs to be held at Northwestern univer sity this spring. Julia Hagerty presided at the meeting of the Apostolic academy at which a re port was given concerning the sale of the Patna Mission stamps. This group has announced that it will again sponsor its annual Valentine tag day. Examinations, the excitement of seeing our very first polo game, and the news of Edytiik Williams' return to Munde lein from London have left us in such a state of mind that Christmas and New Year's seem to have passed months ago. However, jotting social notes on lecture cards and envelopes is an almost auto matic procedure, and so many have ac cumulated during the holidays that we don't know where to begin. Glancing through the scribbled names and dates, we find that Katherine Wol- ford, Charlotte Wilcox, Rosemary Kearns, Dorothy O'Donnell, Max- ine Lindsay and Catherine Heerey attended the pre-Christmas dance given by the Pi Alph's, a Loyola fraternity, at the Belden-Stratford Hotel on Dec. IS. Dec. 21 found Marian Bkrtrand, Vir ginia O'Connell, Mary Joyce, Fran ces McCambridge. Elenor Loarie, and Mary O'Brien at the charity dance in Loyola's gym. Among the Mundelein students at the Notre Dame Chicago club dance at the Congress on Dec. 27 were Catherine Burke, Ella Jamieson, Dorothy White, Mercedes McCambridge, Dora and Margaret Myers, Mary Ann Walsh, Mary Jane Nielson, and Bonnie Larkin. Roma Murphy and Rosemary Kearns put their stockings and candy canes away for a short while to attend the Rho Del ta Pi dance at the Lake Shore Athletic club on Dec. 26. Margaret Fitzgerald, Mae Sexton, Marion Green, Marion Murphy, Wil- ma Roberts, Mary Margaret Morris- sey, Jane Flick, and Jean Parks ush ered in the New Year at the Reveler's dance at the Midland club. lmmaculata alumnae at Mundelein are legion, as you know. A few who attend ed the alumnae formal at the Medinah on Jan. 11 are Lucille Barrett, Vir ginia Bosch, Cit;Mfi,o-rTF Wiir-a g , Ellen Smith, Elenor Loarie, Mary O'Brien, Frances McCambridge, Cath erine Ann Dougherty, Mary Belle Milliman, Sue Adams, Shirley Brice, and Conceita Alonzi. Another alumnae dance was that of Siena, on Jan. 12 at the Tower Town club, and at which were Jean Kelly and Catherine Heerey. Almost all of Rita Devaney's holiday plans were upset by an unruly appendix, which was removed two days after Christmas. The one redeeming feature of her stay in the hospital was the fact that she had a nurse with a sense of humor. Mary Russell, Rita O'Donahue, Helen Coleman, Anna Marie Master- son, Ruth Tangney, and Catherine Heerey were members of a theatre party which saw Ah, Wilderness on Jan. 3. Eleanor Hopkins and Rita Smith were among Mary Ann Kirschten's guests at a party on Jan. 4. Ruth Quirk celebrated her eighteenth birthday on Jan. 5. Among those who helped blow her candles were Mary Catherine Rose, Rita Hagel, Ruth Kees, Margaret Vendley. Two former members of the class of '37, Annarose Schofield and Rowena Houlihan, who is now Mrs. H. Blair Johnston, were also there. Joan Limburg, Norine Golden, Helen Hunter, Margaret Ronan, Rosemary Walsh, Marjorie Green- wald, Rita Hagel, Wilma Roberts, and Marion Green were among the Munde lein girls Gertrude Birmingham eu-ic.- tained at a bridge-luncheon on Jan. 3. Ella Jamieson, Jeanne Devaney, Dorothy White, and Marian Ber trand were among Marion Morrison's guests at dinner on Dec. 29. We'll wager that never were so many blood-curdling and hair-raising experiences related. Though we're not timid by nature, we really were afraid to go home. Mercedes McCambridge, the girl who is enthusiastic about everything from penguin collections to psychology, spent part of her holidays showing the resi dents of Long Beach how to toboggan in the best Laetare Player manner.
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1935-01-25 (4)
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